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The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 2% to 589.52. It has been on a slow but steady decline since the start of 2018.Shares of SilverCrest Metals rose 28 ? to $3.27. Recently, SSR Mining agreed to invest $31 million into the company, buying more than 8 million shares at $3.73 per share.Earlier in the month SilverCrest announced some of its best drill-hole intercepts to date at its Las Chispas s...Read More

Lithium-focused Wealth Minerals (TSXV: WML; US-OTC: WMLLF) says it will spin out a copper company, containing two copper exploration projects, that it plans to acquire in Chile.Wealth Copper will be spun out to shareholders of Wealth Minerals and eventually the new entity will list on the TSX Venture Exchange, the company says.Henk Van Alphen, Wealth Minerals' CEO, says the spin-out gives sharehol...Read More

Carube Copper (TSXV: CUC) has expanded the gold-in-soil anomaly at its Main Ridge gold project in Jamaica east to a 5.5 km total strike length.Though Carube has several copper and gold projects in Jamaica, the company says Main Ridge is one it can fast track through exploration. Carube is now carrying out detailed mapping and sampling at Main Ridge, including rock-chip samples, grab samples and ch...Read More

Canada's benchmark index rose 1.24% to end the trading week at 12,197.82. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index fell 0.19% to 62.58 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 1.4% to 164.34. The gold price fell 0.01% to US$1,222.10. Shares of Moneta Porcupine Mines rose 27% to 12 ?. The company recently modelled a geological interpretation for its Golden Highway gold project near Timmins, Ontario. The model...Read More

U.S. markets surged in the trading week with a revised North American trade pact. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement, signed on Nov. 30, replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 5.16% to 25,538.46 and the S&P 500 Index rose 4.85% to finish at 2,760.17.An upward guidance revision for its Fosterville mine in Australia propelled Kirkl...Read More

On Nov. 30, Burkina Faso government security forces were attacked on the road between Semafo's (TSX: SMF) Fada and Boungou mine, about 40 km away, leaving four gendarmes and a driver dead.No Semafo employees were involved, "but senior management continues its discussions with the government regarding the security of the public road," the company states in a press release on December 3.John Jentz,...Read More

Infill drilling in the southwestern part of the Marathon gold deposit in Newfoundland continues to return high-grade gold intercepts, Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) reports.The company recently completed its 41,000-metre stepout and infill drill program for 2018, and assays include 5.36 grams gold over 11 metres from 26 metres below surface in hole 18-330; 3.63 grams gold over 10 metres from 134 metre...Read More

Joint venture partners Golden Arrow Resources (TSXV: GRG; US-OTC: GARWF) and SSR Mining (TSX: SSRM; NASDAQ: SSRM) have begun commercial production at their Chinchillas silver-lead-zinc mine in Argentina's Jujuy province.SSR Mining and Golden Arrow formed the 75-25 joint venture, called Puna Operations, in March 2017 following a pre-feasibility study for Chinchillas. The study outlined a US$178 mil...Read More

North Vancouver/Stockholm-based Boreal Metals (TSXV:BMX) announced today it has completed seven diamond drill holes totalling 951 metres of exploratory diamond drill program at its Burfjord copper-gold project in Norway. In a press release, the miner said that assay results are expected in the coming weeks. The Burfjord project is comprised of six exploration licenses totaling 5,500 hectares near...Read More

DRA Global ("DRA") recently implemented a state of the art Advanced Milling Control System,using the MillSlicer instrument, on the Asanko Gold Mine. The Asanko Gold Mine is a large scale, multi-pit asset located on the Asankrangwa belt in Ghana, West Africa. Built in 2015 by DRA Global, ahead of schedule and within budget, first gold was poured in January 2016 and commercial production commenced i...Read More

NUNAVUT - Ottawa-based Aura Resources has issued an update of the work done at the Greyhound gold property, a partnership of Aura and Agnico Eagle Mining (the operator and holder of an optioned 70% interest). The project is located 40 km north of Baker Lake, and 32 km south of Agnico's Meadowbank gold mine.Agnico has completed surface mapping, induced polarization surveys, geochemical sampling, an...Read More

KINSHASA - Democratic Republic of Congo has declared cobalt a "strategic" substance, a government decree showed on Monday, nearly tripling the royalty rate miners will pay on the key component in electric batteries to 10 percent.Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala signed the decree, which is dated Nov. 24, despite fierce opposition from leading investors including Glencore and China Molybdenum, who have...Read More

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) has advised shareholders to vote for Detour Gold Corp's refreshed board of directors at an upcoming special shareholders' meeting, stopping short of more aggressive changes demanded by activist investor Paulson & Co, the company said on Monday.Detour's existing management has been resisting Paulson's call for a complete overall of the board and immediat...Read More

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